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Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

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NEW: NSF is REINSTATING the 84 probationary staff who were terminated last month, in response to Friday's Federal court order. The 84 "intermittent experts" are still fired.

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Confirmed with a source. Here's a screenshot of the email sent to staff today.

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The Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) programs are a wonderful way for young people to develop professional science skills through hands-on immersion, developing the cutting-edge researchers of the future. Cutting them is bad news. 🧪🌊 ⚒️ www.science.org/content/arti...

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Good framing from AOC www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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Hundreds attend rally to show support for Hot Springs National Park staff arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

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“Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...

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If the UK’s immigration rules mean what they say, Trump shouldn’t even be allowed to enter the country, let alone for a state visit ….

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Aviation weather. That's what I'm thinking about right now. Aviation weather. You can not fly IFR without certified weather.

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Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications. The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...

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This is contempt of court. New NIH awards still flatlined, despite multiple court orders clearly requiring funding to resume. The longer this goes on, the harder it will be for the country to recover. #academicsky #neuroskyence

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Zelenskyy stayed in Kyiv while Russia was bombing the city and sending in hit squads to kill him. J.D. Vance fled to an undisclosed location because some peaceful protesters yelled at him while he was on vacation. This is why I believe victory over these people is still possible.

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Firefly's Blue Ghost mission is called Ghost Riders in the Sky. This is from a 1948 song by Stan Jones about a herd of cattle being driven across the sky by ghostly cowboys. Jones said he was told the story as a kid by an Indigenous man from Arizona. 🧪🔭

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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Trump signs executive order designating English as official language of US

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The only reason for this is bigotry

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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EXCLUSIVE: The source with knowledge of the FAA tells Rolling Stone that it appears as though “someone does not want a paper trail.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"Bill Shaw, owner of Shaw Feedyard in Ashland, said he never thought twice about the government holding up its end of a contract. 'Now the USDA is telling me I may not get paid and I don't understand how that's possible.'" www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...

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No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

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"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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about those elon musk promises & predictions… i often come back to this one because he is supposed to be THE expert in this domain. (whereas- he’s not a health expert, population scientist, economist, etc.)

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US warships will have a harder time refueling in Norway after last nights meltdown. Haltbakk, Norway’s largest* bunker company will from now on refuse to service US warships. According to owner it is a direct reaction in support of Ukraine. Company has previously banned Russian ships. *self-claim

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NOAA layoffs have begun. 🧪 I am specifically worrying about degradation of NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) services. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...

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Major update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

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Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.

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Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

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As the plan is to replace NASA with SpaceX, the likely successor for the NOAA is tomorrow.io, which already has several contracts intended to "support" and "explore" privatization of core NOAA functions. #IStandWithNOAA #SaveNOAA @climate.noaa.gov @altnoaa.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social

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This sounds innocent and normal. Nothing to see here. “President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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Europe as “a haven” for US researcher - The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White House #AcademicSky 🧪 sciencebusiness.net/internationa...

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Percent of births financed by medicaid, by state, 2023

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Just so we all understand, the point to this is to privatize weather forecasting. You'll have to pay for weather forecasts. Private companies like starlink will own the weather satellites. There will be no long-term research on improving forecasts

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🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

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Thank you, @kimlanelaw.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/ted-... Everyone literally runs around acting like EOs are enforceable edicts

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What is wrong with Senate Democrats? There is a five-alarm Article I constitutional crisis. No votes. No attending joint session Trump speeches. No normal operations at all until all the illegal stealing of Congress’ authority stops. Why is this so hard?

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Trump, who in 2023 was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, helps alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate cross border into U.S.: theintercept.com/2025/02/27/t...

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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Even among those who want to massively move away from "legacy" platforms to cool new drones and stuff, just about the last thing they want to get rid of are the nuclear submarines, and the main thing Portsmouth does is... maintain and repair the nuclear submarines.

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Five former US defense secretaries condemned President Donald Trump's ‘reckless’ firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officers and called on Congress to halt any confirmation of their successors reut.rs/43lH1rb

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Get the word out on these special elections We win these three and we take the house No more trifecta No more BS from Trump We need people in these districts to step up and fight for it Contact your friends and neighbors and raise hell gayforcongress.com joshweil.us blakegendebienforcongress.com

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